Godzilla To Return?

[DWF]

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17061

55 years and 28 movies later, the Japanese monster Godzilla is looking to make his return to big screens everywhere. Making his first appearance in 1954 (Gojira) Godzilla is a giant monster that lives in the sea that comes from the ocean to feed on mankind. Bloody Disgusting has learned exclusively that Legendary Pictures is looking to do another major movie with the iconic horror monster (they are in early discussions), although there are NO details at this point other than this should be a reboot. In 1998, TriStar Pictures produced a remake set in New York City, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Matthew Broderick. In recent interviews for 2012 Emmerich has said that he's not interested in sequels (even though all of his disaster movies are basically the same). More details as they come in.

Well I've been wondering how a big budget remake would do against other summer movies this year and it would be nice to see a better take on the monster than they did in 1998.

 

[barnaclelapse]

I think they should just leave it to the Japanese.

 

[Chaos Descending]

I think they should just leave it to the Japanese.

As do I.

 

[clint g]

I think they should just leave it to the Japanese.

As do I.

Indeed...though I did enjoy the 1998 US version

 

[Chaos Descending]

I did not.

 

[Samurai8472]

I thought Godzilla would return in 2013 for the 60th anniversary

 

[DWF]

I thought Godzilla would return in 2013 for the 60th anniversary

Toho's version is supposed to return in 2013 but the 60th anniversary isn't until 2014.

 

[barnaclelapse]

I thought Godzilla would return in 2013 for the 60th anniversary

That's what I heard, too, and that's the only news I'm going to give a damn about as far as Godzilla goes.

 

[bigdaddy]

I wish they would bring bad the USA cartoon that is a sequel to the crap USA movie. That cartoon was really good!

 

[Goji]

Even the Japanese movies have been incredibly hit or miss since the first revival in the mid 80s. As much as I like the character, new Godzilla isn't automatically a good thing. I'll take a wait and see approach. At least its comforting to know that very few things could possibly be any worse than "Godzilla Final Wars" was.

 

[Admiral2]

I think they should just leave it to the Japanese.

As do I.

Indeed...though I did enjoy the 1998 US version

So did I.

 

[N-121973]

For me Godzilla means one thing, the 1970s Hanna Barbera cartoon: "Up from the depths, 30 stories high, breathing fire, his head in the sky..." Etc etc, when is that coming out on DVD?

 

[Cutter John]

The '98 version would've been okay if they'd called it 'Attack of the mutant Iquana' or something. Calling it Godzilla just raised certain expectations that the movie didn't deliver.

But yeah, I'm with Goji. A lot of the modern films have been pretty awful. Basically just remakes of past films. Things usually start to go downhill when they decide to bring back Mothra and those two damn fairies.

Now the 90's Gamera, that was how you revived a movie monster.

 

[Samurai8472]

Okay so here are the corrected facts

This isn't really true. It's a rumor that spawned from an off-hand remark by producer Shogo Tomiyama back in 2004. He said that between the Showa and Heisei Godzilla series there was a 9 year gap, and it would probably be a similar break after GODZILLA: FINAL WARS in 2004.

The headline on Monster Zero News, which ran the piece, took Tomiyama's comments a bit too literally and suggested: "Godzilla to return in 2013?"

Some fans have taken that even more literally and have convinced themselves that there WILL be a new movie in 2013. This rumor has now spread all over the internet.

The fact is, no studio makes plans for 9 or 10 years in the future. Toho will bring Godzilla back they feel the time is right. That could be next year, or it could be in two decades.

 

[Cutter John]

Found this on another forum. Now THIS is how it ought to be done (maybe without the hair).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEEXydQc9KE

 

[RobertScorpio]

I think they should just leave it to the Japanese.

I TOTALLY agree!! This is one thing American movie makers should stay the hell away from

Rob

 

[Goji]

Now the 90's Gamera, that was how you revived a movie monster.

Absolutely, and the director responsible for Gamera's remarkable transformation into something worth watching also turned out the best of the recent Godzilla series too. It's unfortunate that after "GMK" Toho and Shusuke Kaneko parted ways. I liked the Megaguirus movie, silly though it was (that was kind of the point) but Tezuka's Mechagodzilla series was mediocre, redeemed only by the stunning awfulness of what followed it. That, and Mothra looked kind of cool in the second one.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I think non-Japanese could do a decent G movie, they just got to get someone who has a better grasp on the material and who isn't intent on giving us some more "naturalistic" version.

 

[Trekker4747]

I think an American-made Godzilla movie could really work it would just require the right approach.

A Godzilla movie that is a melodramatic love story bettween Mathew Broderick and some chich and in the movie Godzilla hardly appears in it, most of the damage caused to the city is done by the military and, oh, the movie blatantly rips off Jurassic Park 2.

That Godzilla movie was a farce and joke.

Cloverfield did it a bit better and was likely the better approach to it (in terms of the monster and its destruction and aftermath not necessairly the story or craft of the movie itself).

Godzilla should've come and utterly leveled NYC as the military was helpless, but still somewhat competent.

 

[bigdaddy]

For me Godzilla means one thing, the 1970s Hanna Barbera cartoon: "Up from the depths, 30 stories high, breathing fire, his head in the sky..." Etc etc, when is that coming out on DVD?

Three years ago.

http://www.amazon.com/Godzilla-Orig...ef=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1250556160&sr=8-5

Only season 1 is out in the USA, but it's better than nothing.